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The Quiet One 
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 Topic: How many books have you read?
Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:14 |
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Want to know if prog fans are good, constant, readers.
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LinusW
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:17 |
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More than 100, definitely. Couldn't possibly say the exact number though.
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VanderGraafKommandöh
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:18 |
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Hopefully over 100.
Do you mean novels or just books in general?
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The Quiet One
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:19 |
^literature books, including music, bios, essays maybe? I don't know... Short stories books, count as one. (Martian Chronicles = 1)  School/Uni work-books don't count!
Edited by The Quiet One - August 08 2009 at 20:20
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progkidjoel
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:21 |
Easily 100+ - What I do when I'm not listening to prog basically 
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The Quiet One
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:23 |
Am I the only one that reads and listens at the same time?  Stuff like The Final Cut, Division Bell, Blackouts, Snow Goose, Jazz Fusion, etc, work as perfect soundtracks to certain genres of literature IMO.
Edited by The Quiet One - August 08 2009 at 20:23
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Dean
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:24 |
About 20 years ago my bookcases were full and I had no more room for new books so I took most of them down to the secondhand bookstore, just keeping back the Dune trillogy, all the John Sladek novels and Ian Hunter's Diary Of A Rock and Roll Star. The bookstore took over 200 books off my hands that day.
My bookcases are now full again.
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What?
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progkidjoel
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:25 |
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Dean
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:26 |
 The Quiet One wrote:
Am I the only one that reads and listens at the same time?
Stuff like The Final Cut, Division Bell, Blackouts, Snow Goose, Jazz Fusion, etc, work as perfect soundtracks to certain genres of literature IMO.
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I use to read, listen to music and watch TV all at the same time. I don't do that anymore, but will often play some instrumental music while reading.
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The Quiet One
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:29 |
Cool, then you have the gift of being multi-functional, not many have that gift. I heard that some guy wrote music with his piano, read a book, watched TV, listened to music, listened to the radio for another type of music, and read the newspaper all at the same time. However, he only did that once, the next day his brain collapsed, and when they checked his head, there was a small portatile TV in it, the radio, the music player(or MP3 with headphones), the piano, the book, and the newspaper...
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progkidjoel
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:31 |
The Quiet One wrote:
Cool, then you have the gift of being multi-functional, not many have that gift.I heard that some guy wrote music with his piano, read a book, watched TV, listened to music, listened to the radio for another type of music, and read the newspaper all at the same time. However, he only did that once, the next day his brain collapsed, and when they checked his head, there was a small portatile TV in it, the radio, the music player(or MP3 with headphones), the piano, the book, and the newspaper... |
What a cool guy - We should hang sometime 
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SaltyJon
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:38 |
LinusW wrote:
More than 100, definitely. Couldn't possibly say the exact number though.
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Basically exactly what I was going to say.
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stonebeard
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 20:39 |
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Full books, completely, not skimming, no audiobooks...
less than 20 real novels by myself...add another ten for school and college.
I don't read much, even less an entire book, and even even less something other than sci-fi/fantasy.
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Stooge
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 22:30 |
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I really couldn't give a solid answer on this one. Not including books I read for school, it would still have to be at minimum 50 as a conservative estimate. I really have no idea.
Edited by Stooge - August 08 2009 at 22:31
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GaryB
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 22:52 |
Over 100 for me but not by much. I didn't care much for reading in school probably because I had to do it. In the Army, a friend would give me paperbacks after he finished them. Things like Catch 22, Sometimes A Great Notion, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and The Electric Koolaid Acid Test. He also gave me my first of many books by Kurt Vonnegut.
In more recent years I've read my share of military and political (Conservative of course) books and a conspiracy theory book that I really enjoyed.
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Concentration Moon
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 22:58 |
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I definitely read over 100 books before age 10 (though not very intellectual books). I've always been a big reader.
Who is everyone's favorite author?
Mine's Kafka.
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: August 08 2009 at 23:16 |
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Easily over 100. Probably somewhere in the 300-400 range.
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Jimbo
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Posted: August 09 2009 at 02:16 |
Probably somewhere around 200-300. Not all that much, but I still have time. 
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Icarium
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Posted: August 09 2009 at 03:22 |
i have read about 40-50 books i think (i have not counted the exact number but its close to 45++ books  ) it helps when Fantasy epics are 5 books or more in one series. I have read almoust 1000 (or more) Donald Duck comics, Marvel comic and DC comic stripes.
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Conor Fynes
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Posted: August 09 2009 at 04:08 |
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Considering prog takes intelligence to appreciate, I would imagine prog fans would read more....
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